Meghan Markle’ comments about curtsying the Queen gets slammed as not ‘particularly be…

Meghan Markle’s past remarks about her experience curtsying the late Queen Elizabeth has resurfaced in a recent article about Meghan and Prince Harry.

In a Vanity Fair article that was published on Jan. 17, they took a look into the post five years that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have left senior royals duties and their business ambitions since then. In one part, they referenced the curtsey controversy that was a point of contention that had some people accusing Meghan of being a liar.

Within the article, they had a comment from fashion and cultural commentator Tom Fitzgerald who offered his two cents on that moment. Tom has a media brand with his husband Lorenzo Marquez, called Tom and Lorenzo.

Meghan is the type of woman who would check a menu out online before going to a restaurant to pick what she was going to eat,” Tom said. “So the idea that she didn’t know she was supposed to curtsy for the queen, I just didn’t find it particularly believable, because [based on] everything she ever told us about herself, I cannot imagine that she went into meeting the royal family completely cold, with no research whatsoever.”

Meghan has told the curtesy before her impromptu meeting with the Queen story with Oprah in the explosive special in 2021. The story was told again in their Harry & Meghan Netflix docuseries in December 2022.

Harry had mentioned that his grandmother was the first senior member of the family Meghan met and that Meghan was not aware of what that meeting was going to look like and said it “was a bit of a shock to the system for her.”

It’s surreal. It wasn’t like some big moment of like, ‘Now you’re going to meet my grandmother,” Meghan recounted “I didn’t know I was going to meet her until moments before. We were in the car, and we were going to Royal Lodge for lunch. And he’s like, ‘Oh my grandmother’s here, she’s gonna be there after church.'”

And I remember we were in the car and we were driving up and he’s like ‘You know how to curtsy right?’ And I just thought it was a joke,” she said.

“How do you explain that to people? How do you explain that you bow to your grandmother and that you would need to curtsy? Especially to an American. That’s weird,” Harry said.

“Now, I’m starting to realize this is a big deal. I mean, Americans will understand this,” she said while doing a theatrical voice in the next part. “We have Medieval Times, dinner and tournament. It was like that.”

“I curtsied as though as I was like,” she said, pausing to do a impersonation of a deep curtesy with a giggle at the end. “‘Pleasure to meet you, your Majesty.

It was so intense. And then when she left, Eugenie and Jack and Fergie say ‘you did great!’. Thanks. I didn’t know what I was doing,” Meghan added.

Harry also talked about the moment in his 2023 memoir Spare. He mentioned that he asked Meghan if she knew how to curtsey and she replied ‘thought so’. He added that his aunt Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson was there to help (which Meghan mentioned to Oprah Fergie was there) and his cousin Eugenie as well as her husband Jack Brookbanks was also present.

People for some reason felt she lied and used an example of a 2010 scene from Suits where her character does a quite small playful curtesy to attorney Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman) as her character, paralegal Rachel Zane. The playful curtesy moment on the legal drama doesn’t seem like one done officially in front of an actual Queen.